No matter ancient and modern, no matter China and abroad, prisoners of war will definitely appear after the war begins. Each country has a different attitude towards prisoners of war. However, no matter the differences in details, there is a common standard, that is, prisoners of war are the targets of attack and punishment. Simply put, it is impossible to be too good to prisoners of war.
However, there is a country with an army that treats prisoners of war very favorably. Any punishment or abuse of prisoners of war is simply not visible in this army. Sometimes, the life of prisoners of war may be better than their own soldiers. can be said to be a true army of benevolence and righteousness, and it is Chinese People's Volunteer Army .
How good is volunteer army treating prisoners of war?
1950 After the outbreak of the Korean War , in order to defend the country and prevent the US military from invading our borders through the Korean Peninsula, resisting U.S. aggression and aiding Korea began. In October, the volunteers crossed the Yalu River overnight. After several battles, the volunteer army also captured many " United Nations Army " prisoners of war.
. Our army attaches great importance to the handling of these prisoners of war. Because it inherited the style of establishing and managing the army during the Red Army's period, the volunteer army fully utilized the tradition of our army to preferentially treat prisoners of war when dealing with prisoners of war.
At that time, after capturing prisoners of war, the Volunteer Army Headquarters would divide these prisoners of war into 5 prisoners' management regiments, each prisoner regiment was divided into 5 squadrons, each squadron had about hundreds of prisoners of war, and then each squadron was assigned a teacher to educate them.
At the same time, unlike other countries, the volunteer army will not be heavily guarded, but just arranges a concentration camp to disperse the prisoners of war. Judging from the behavior of the volunteer army, the outstanding treatment of prisoners of war is: respect and education.
Volunteer Army education has been quite effective. Many prisoners of war did not understand why they came to the Korean Peninsula to fight. When the volunteers asked them, the most answer was, "The chief said that you can get rich after the battle, and this war won't take long to end."
After the teacher's education and persuasion, many prisoners of war began to understand that they were deceived and that they also understood that they were fighting an unjust war.
Of course, apart from daily education and learning, our army will not interfere too much in their actions in the prisoner-of-war camp. Perhaps because the volunteer army is relatively relaxed in supervision, some prisoners of war who have always been stubborn will want to escape.
This is not the Christmas Day in 1950. A few prisoners of war were sneaking out of the prisoner camp without barbed wire while the prisoner's steward was preparing a holiday meal for them.
By four o'clock in the morning, the guards found that a prisoner of war had fled, so they urgently reported it to their superiors. Immediately, the leaders of the prisoner-of-war camp, together with several soldiers, rushed into the night.
While searching, everyone walked and shouted: "Stop, don't run away anymore, the volunteers will not punish you." I don't know how long it took to search, but it was not until the fish belly began to appear in the sky that everyone found the escaped people. I saw them curled up beside the fields where crops had been cut, in a mess.
As soon as they saw the volunteer army, these prisoners of war cried and shouted: "We were wrong. The fear, cold and hunger that night have made us have enough. Take us back, please."
. The performance of these prisoners of war after they were found, once again proved that the volunteer army is , which is preferential to prisoners of war. Because they are treated preferentially, they beg them to take themselves back after seeing the volunteer army. If they are really abused inhumanely every day, they may choose to die of cold in the snow and are unwilling to go back to the prisoner of war camp.
Think about it further. If the volunteer army did not treat prisoners of war preferential treatment, they would not be able to run out at all, or they were shot to death when they were found. Where would there be a chance to ask for help?
After finding them, the volunteers immediately took them back to the prisoner-of-war camp, treated them, and provided them with hot rice and warm beds.
Only after they all recovered did the volunteer army "punish" them: they were detained for a few days to let them reflect, then write a review, and then release them to show up to tell other prisoners of war about the "tragic failure and lessons of absconding."
However, after this, the Volunteer Army still did not strengthen supervision, or added barbed wire in prisoners of war camps. After all, the Volunteer Army's concept of treating prisoners of war is respect and education. At the same time, they also believe that no more prisoners of war want to escape. The volunteers were right, and no one wanted to escape again.
In fact, after hearing that someone had escaped, some prisoners of war were mocking the escaped people for getting into the water, because life in the prison camp was so good.
Not only do they have food and drink, but they also have different dietary habits and different meals, they will also regularly distribute cigarettes, sugar, soap, etc. Every prisoner of war can get clothes to change, including summer clothes and winter clothes. volunteers even treated them.
The prisoner-of-war camp has a special medical room. The doctors are all doctors from China, and even penicillin, which is more precious than gold, have been transferred to prisoners of war for use. A prisoner of war named Peter in the prison camp survived the treatment of volunteer military doctors.
Originally, Peter was locked up in a prisoner of war camp in North Korea, where he suffered from pneumonia and was transferred to our prisoner of war camp. At that time, Huang Yuan, a military doctor at that time, injected him with a crucial penicillin under the instructions of the Volunteer Army Headquarters, which pulled Peter back from the edge of death.
After Peter recovered, he was very grateful to the Volunteer Army and the Military Doctor, especially when he learned that only the Volunteer Army and the Workers could use the penicillin that saved him. Later, Peter became friends with military doctor Huang Yuan. From 1988 to 2000, Peter came to China four times, each time he visited Huang Yuan, and the two even communicated with each other.
In addition to life needs, the volunteer army also purchased many sports equipment for the prisoners of war and built many sports venues, including basketball courts, football fields, ice skating rinks, etc., allowing the prisoners of war to freely participate in various activities during the prescribed work and rest time to ensure their entertainment needs.
Powers of war often organize friendly competitions such as basketball, football, volleyball, table tennis, tug of war, as well as small sports meets. By 1952, the volunteers also established a "Sports and Entertainment Committee" based on the suggestions of the prisoners of war. Shortly after the establishment of the committee, a full prisoner-of-war camp sports meeting was held.
And this Olympic Games, which we later knew, is the "Chinese People's Volunteer Army Bitong Prison War Camp Olympic Games", This is an Olympic Games belonging to prisoners of war, and there is only one in the world, and only the Volunteer Army's prisoner war camp can make such a shocking move.
In this game, except for all the participants in the participants, all other standards and processes are no different from normal Olympics. There are referees, journalists, photographers, competition events, competition schedules, and passed the "Olympic Committee Work Code", "Athlete Discipline Code", etc.
In addition to this, there are even prizes. These prizes are Jingtai Orchid vases, silk umbrellas, sandalwood fans, jade necklaces, silk scarves, handkerchiefs and various other exquisite handicrafts purchased from Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and other places. After calculation, these prizes cost a total of 600 million yuan.
Of course, this 600 million yuan refers to the old currency, which is equivalent to the new RMB 60,000. However, the 60,000 yuan in the 1950s was not the 60,000 yuan now. Whoever had 60,000 yuan at that time was a rich man. From this we can also see that the Volunteer Army Prisoner-of-War Camp attaches great importance to this Olympic Games.
After more than a month of intense and active preparations, the sports meeting was held as scheduled. Five prisoner-management groups and two prisoner-management teams selected the sports meeting team, with a total of more than 500 prisoners of war athletes from 14 countries and regions participating.
November 15 at 8 am, the opening ceremony of the sports meeting was grandly held at the main venue of the conference.The chairman of the presidium of the conference is personally appointed by Wang Yanggong, director of the Volunteer Army Capture Management Department. Soon, Wang Yanggong, other members of the presidium and all the guests took to the rostrum one after another.
Then, the host announced the opening of the "Power War Camp Olympics". Then, the Volunteer Army Band performed music such as "March of Friendship" and Defending World Peace". Along with the intense music, athletes and referees entered the venue one after another. Although these athletes have different skin colors and different languages, they are all full of energy.
It should be said that these athletes are very excited, even more excited than they go to the battlefield to fight. After the opening ceremony, the "Olympic Games" officially began.
This "Olympic Games" was not allowed to hold water sports events because there was no swimming pool and other facilities, but basically all other events that could be held were held, including track and field, ball, gymnastics, boxing , wrestling , tug of war and other 27 events.
According to the subsequent memories of the volunteer army prisoners and prisoners of war and relevant records, although the contestants participating in the "War Olympics" were all prisoners of war in the Volunteer Army prisoner camp, the athletes' competitive level is not low, and the competition scenes are also exciting.
For example, in the 100-meter race, 20-year-old American black player John L. Thomas was far ahead and actually ran a good time of 10.6 seconds, which was only 0.4 seconds more than the world record at that time!
In addition, during this "Power of War Camp Olympics", the volunteer army's POW camp literary and artistic teams, as well as prisoners of various prisoners of war regiments, also prepared wonderful literary and artistic programs and screened movies to relax their mood.
Later, after the sports meeting, Miller, who won the all-around championship, wrote to his parents that he participated in the prisoner-of-war sports meeting that had never been in the world and won the prize. After the war, he would take the prize back and let them share their honor. After the reporter reported this incident, it caused an uproar in the world. Many people did not believe that the prisoners of war were taken care of so well that they could participate in the sports meeting. But whether they believe it or not, the facts are there.
It is precisely because the volunteer army preferential treatment of prisoners, and this matter has spread more and more widely. It is said that later, there were enemies who did not want to fight, so they deliberately surrendered to the volunteer army and came to the prisoner-of-war camp until the end of the war.
When the war ended, there were even 21 prisoners of war who were unwilling to return to China. One of the US prisoners of war named Winneris remained in China until he died in 2002 and did not return to China.
However, it is not difficult to understand the choices of prisoners of war who are unwilling to return to China. As the saying goes, "Who can be ruthless without plants?" The volunteer army won the highest respect from the prisoners of war with their respect and kindness.
UN army has always been unable to understand why all weapons and equipment are inferior to their volunteer army and can achieve the final victory? In fact, they ignored that war is fought by people. It is impossible for the Volunteer Army to achieve final victory, a unit with a benevolent and righteous army, a unit based on humanitarianism. This is also the biggest difference between our army and other countries' armies. How lucky is the Chinese people to have such an army!
